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Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
so i woke up the other morning and wanted red suede door panels, i went and bought fabric before i even came across this thread, figured id do some research before i started to rip my interior apart and found this.
this was extremely simple all you need is the patients of laying it down slow so you can have 0 wrinkles, i am extremly pleased with how mine turned out, i'd say 10x better than i expected
i am doing a type r look on my arm rest, black suede with red stitching on the edges of it, ill post picks of it later, hopefully that turns out as good as this did
sorry about the shitty quality i took them on my phone
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Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
Sweet bro, I just join here the other day after buying a 97. Everyone has thier own ways of doing things and i by no means am a expert so this is just some small advise. Take a old spoon you dont want anymore and a hammer, flatten out the spoon so that the round concave end is now flat. Make sure you dont have any burrs from going apeshit happy with the hammer and you now have a nice upholstery tucking tool. This helps get all the materal down inside those groves as well as you can roll the spoon too. Works alot better than a screw driver if you want to take the time to make one.
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
that sounds like it would work great, kinda wish i had more door panels to do it was a very fun DIY, i'd say for everyone that does this mod after reading this page to use the spoon idea, if you use a flat head screwdriver you can pull your fabric off the adhesive really easily creating a wrinkle, i'd imagine useing the spoon it would have much more surface area making it not pull as hard in 1 certain spot, and yes roll the tip of the spoon in a 90 degree type way so you can push the fabric under the little plastic lip, that would make your door mmmmiiiiiinnnnttt
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
Fixing to redo the headliner and sunvisors on mine i dont know if there was ever a DIY done on this if not i might make one. The spoon works well for alot of different apps including tucking headliner material. Many years and i do mean many i worked in a car stereo shop where i was the only one brave enough to install the leather kits and this was what they taught me to use back then. You will mess up some headliner or even leather material with a screw driver.
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
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Originally Posted by DeX
I just used a butter knife.
That will work too you just have to make sure it does not have the teeth on it. The onlt draw back to a butter knife is your not able to roll the edge as much but none the less i never thought of one of those, That will work
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
so i finished up my armrest and it looks preeettty good i think, it was pretty hard due to the 3 peices and getting them all the match up on the armrest was pretty hard. nothin a little glue cant stretch out.
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
haha actually i tried it myself, failed horribly including breaking the sewing machine, so then i got my mom to do it, she asked me to never give her a project to do again haha
Re: DIY: Change the color of your door panels with suede!!
I have a silver 2002 Honda Civic DX. Im getting ready to attempt to re-do my door pannels tomorrow. I have purchased 3M Adhesive Remover to make sure the door pannel is clean and free of any residue. I also bought a can of 3M Headliner Spray Adhesive. I purchased 2 yrds of fabric, (wanted to make sure i had enough in case i screwed up LOL). I will be taking before,during, and after pics. And yes im posting them. Total cost of project, so far, $20.00. This is with buying materials from wal mart. Wish me luck...
